2,138 stories from Butts In The Seats
A survey found that in the UK, 93% of event ticketers add "drip fees" on to transactions. As you probably suspect, those are the undisclosed added fees that pop up as you go through the …
I came across an interesting story about the only theater designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. The 400 seat Kalita Humphreys Theater, constructed in 1959, is one of the Dallas Theater Cen…
Back in August I mentioned a partnership of organizations working with the Broadway production of Here Lies Love to offer babysitting services to people attending select performances. Wh…
The Smithsonian Magazine just published a pretty interesting story about how the proliferation of Renaissance Faires (RenFaire) in the US got their start due to artists being blacklisted dur…
Last week I saw that production assistants (PA) on Broadway shows were seeking to unionize under the auspices of Actors Equity Association, which represents actors and stage managers. What r…
A number of arts organizations made strong commitments to diversify their offerings and the composition of their staffs and performers as they emerged from Covid restrictions. Recently there…
I have been reading about the closure of the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony in Ontario, Canada and some of the stories are pretty heartbreaking. The concertmaster was in a moving van driving fr…
Recently on the NEA Quick Study podcast Sunil Iyengar, Director of Research and Analysis at the National Endowment for the Arts shared data that indicated getting an arts degree can be worth…
Last week I was flying into to Indianapolis to attend the Midwest Arts Xpo conference and I idly wondered how things had turned out at Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields after their job…
Lately I have been seeing articles in The Guardian that are calling attention to overlooked aspects of creative practice that have big impacts if conditions start to change. A couple weeks a…
A couple weeks ago Vu Le wrote about how useful AI can potentially be in the process of writing grants. So often granting organizations essentially ask for the same information, with some va…
I recently saw an article in The Guardian about a controversy that arose from misrepresenting reviews of a book by Jordan Peterson through the use of selective editing. The Times columnist J…
A couple weeks ago, I caught a story on NPR about a temporary monument exhibit that has been placed on the National Mall in Washington, DC. While a little more permanent than a pop-up ex…
Last September I made a post about strippers working at a club in Los Angeles who were approaching Actors' Equity Association to help them unionize their workplace. Today I saw on CNN.com th…
I recently received an email which directed me to a 2021 study funded by the Wallace Foundation called, What They Say And What They Do which essentially looked at whether people who say they…
Thanks to the Non-Profit Law Blog's weekly curated link list, I learned that there is a new collaborative working on a way to provide a clearinghouse for raw, clean, and standardized nonprof…
There was a short piece in Fast Company today that discusses hiring employees in similar terms to what is required to broaden and diversify audiences " You have to hire for the company cultu…
The Atlantic recently ran a piece by Imani Perry reviewing a biography of playwright August Wilson by Patti Hartigan. The book has been getting a lot of notice over the last few weeks. This …
According to a story on the Associated Press, fewer non-profits are engaging in lobbying efforts than 20 years ago. The Independent Sector had commissioned a study that found less than 1/3 o…
Ken Davenport recently posted that the Broadway Production of Here Lies Love was working on lowering barriers to attendance by offering babysitting during four upcoming performances. "Here L…
Caught a timely article from The Guardian about the dwindling number of piano tuners in Australia. I am fairly certain arts and cultural organizations in other countries are having a similar…
I have been keeping an eye on the cultural voucher programs various European countries employ to encourage young people to get out and engage in different experiences. The program differ in …
Last week on the Association of Performing Arts Professional's (APAP) podcast, Emily Isaacson of Classical Uprising talked about some of the frustrating experiences she has had trying to adv…
There was another editorial about how the arts should be funded that is getting a lot of notice this week. You may recall I had posted about Isaac Butler's editorial in the NY Times a couple…
Today Margy Waller posted a link to an opinion piece from the Chronicle of Philanthropy with that comment that the piece was not satire. While the piece was apparently posted in June, a vers…
